In article <Zt6dnTulJcydijneRVn-oA@comcast.com>
Linønut <linønut@bone.com> wrote:

>After takin' a swig o' grog, Bruce Chambers belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>
>> Bryson Rivetts wrote:
>>> It is a well documented fact that XP gets progressively slow over time.
>>
>> Really? Documented where? By whom? Such a statement certainly flies
>> in the face of years of experience.
>
>Ha ha. What do you use XP for? Writing emails and small office docs?
>
>Try XP on a domain. Ugh.
>
>Now add VPN into the mix. Double Ugh.
>
>Now access a shared drive over VPN. Oh. My. God.
>
>Windows XP -- the OS with a load in its pants.

We do all that at work and I have no problem.
Maybe you should get out more, and see how it is done in the corporate
world.


>>> That can often be due to fragmentation, lots of usage,
>>
>> Easily prevented by performing simple, routine maintenance: Simply
>> perform a disk clean up following by a defragmentation. Done regularly,
>> the computer's performance never suffers.
>
>Better yet, use a filesystem that can take care of its own diapers.
>Apparently NTFS, Microsoft's vaunted filesystem, full of features, lacks
>the feature of keeping its B trees pruned.
>

One of our web servers, running on Red Hat Linux/Apache, refuses to have
files and folders deleted, and they had to break the RAID and ran full
diagnostic to remove few files.